Kassadin vs Briar
How to Beat Briar as Kassadin
based on 2,113 Kassadin vs Briar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Briar Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Briar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Briar as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Briar
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Kassadin vs Briar Counter Stats
How to Counter Briar with Kassadin in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several influential Kassadin versus Briar matchup stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Briar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Briar..
Kassadin normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Briar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kassadin and Briar
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Briar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kassadin usually loses when taking on Briar, with a 46.3% win rate. Therefore, Kassadin makes a bad counter to Briar.
While Kassadin does have a lower win rate compared to Briar, when on opposite teams, Kassadin also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kassadin into Briaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kassadin also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Briar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Briar matchups, Briar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kassadin is a bad counter for Briar. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kassadin against Briar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kassadin to counter Briar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin typically picks up much more CS as Briar. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kassadin versus Briar build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Kassadin combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Briar than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average win rate of 46.3% when countering Briar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Briar as Kassadin, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Kassadin vs Briar counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.3% winrate overall.
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